SYDNEY: Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, a study...
SYDNEY: Nearly 3 billion koalas, kangaroos and other native Australian animals were killed or displaced by bushfires in 2019 and 2020, a study...
HANOI: Vietnam, virus-free for months, was bracing for another wave of COVID-19 infections on Wednesday after state media reported new cases in Hanoi,...
MANILA: The Philippines said on Wednesday it had slaughtered nearly 39,000 chickens in a poultry farm north of the capital Manila to curb...
Hong Kong: Hong Kong is on the verge of a "large-scale" coronavirus outbreak that could overwhelm hospitals, its leader warned Wednesday, as authorities...
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, bolstering his tough immigration stance in an election year, said on Tuesday it will reject any...
WASHINGTON - Florida reported a record one-day rise in coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, and cases in Texas passed the 400,000 mark, stoking fears...
SANTIAGO - Chilean President Sebastian Pinera has reshuffled key parts of his cabinet, replacing his interior chief and five other ministers, in an...
WASHINGTON - The United States and close ally Australia held high-level talks on China on Tuesday and agreed on the need to uphold...
QUITO - As the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on Ecuador's capital, Quito, authorities are deploying new sanitary mobile centers to ramp up...
Twitter Inc said on Tuesday it had restricted Donald Trump Jr.'s ability to tweet from his account for 12 hours, after one of...
Paris: World Athletics announced Tuesday it was creating a scheme to lend elite runners without sponsorship deals the same carbon-fibre versions of shoes...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Tuesday that health authorities are investigating a weekend charity concert featuring performances by the Chainsmokers and...
LISBON - Wearing masks in public will be compulsory at all times on the popular Portuguese island of Madeira from Aug. 1, the...
New Delhi - A French air force jet on Tuesday delivered ventilators and tens of thousands of coronavirus test kits to help India...
MOSCOW: A Russian state virology institute has started human trials of the country's second potential COVID-19 vaccine, injecting the first of five volunteers...
Nike Inc. is winding down operations at a facility in Goodyear, Arizona, marking an abrupt turnabout for a project meant to become a...
Montreal - Canada on Tuesday gave the green light for people with severe symptoms of COVID-19 to be treated with the anti-viral drug...
Beijing - China's first Mars probe has beamed back a photo of the Earth and the Moon as it heads toward its destination,...